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Many of my photos turn into this pixelated mess in the all photos gallery after being just fine a few moments before. What's up with that?
Because something in your computer memory or hard disk has malfunctioned at that time.
Or even that's just the way Lightroom works, first it shows you the embedded JPG preview in the RAW file, and seconds later when it has had the chance to render the RAW image, it then switches to showing you the RAW on your screen — and here is the key point — often the JPG preview is un-corrupted when the RAW itself is corrupted. If that's what happened the file could be corrupted on the camera card, or during
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The message tells you the problem. The image is damaged.
This is always due to some hardware malfunction somewhere. It could be the camera card, transfer hardware, hard disk or computer memory. You need to try importing the photos again using different hardware (or using an entirely different computer) in order to see if you can isolate the problem.
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But why would it appear perfectly normal in and the just change while I am looking at it?
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Because something in your computer memory or hard disk has malfunctioned at that time.
Or even that's just the way Lightroom works, first it shows you the embedded JPG preview in the RAW file, and seconds later when it has had the chance to render the RAW image, it then switches to showing you the RAW on your screen — and here is the key point — often the JPG preview is un-corrupted when the RAW itself is corrupted. If that's what happened the file could be corrupted on the camera card, or during transfer to the computer's hard disk.
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OK then thanks!
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